Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of design engineers ranging from entry-level to senior experts. Foster a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Strategic Project Execution: Guide execution of New Product Introduction (NPI) programs technology integration and field issue resolution with a primary focus on safety quality and reliability.

• Product Safety and EHS: Lead the design team in identifying and mitigating risks for safety-critical components ensuring all designs meet tolerable risk levels. Drive resolution of SAFER cases by working cross-functionally to ensure completion of actions items.

• Systems Thinking & Integration: Maintain a Systems Thinking mindset to help the team integrate components into the overall turbine design. Assess tradeoffs and understand the implications of component changes on the wider machine.

• Compliance & Standards: Ensure all designs and processes comply with relevant design practices industry regulations and standards. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the regulatory landscape affecting wind turbine systems.

• Product Strategy: Serve as a prime contributor to the component team strategy Multigeneration Product Plan (MGPP) and Multigeneration Technology Plan (MGTP).

• Tool & Process Ownership: Drive continuous improvement of design practices and engineering tools. Establish and maintain standardized analysis and calculation methodologies to ensure a unified and rigorous engineering approach across all projects.

• Risk Management: Act as the technical authority for risk identification and mitigation institutionalizing rigorous DFMEA practices to ensure that all potential failure modes are proactively identified addressed and validated against the highest quality and reliability standards.

• Prototyping & Validation: Lead the conceptualization prototyping and physical testing of mechanical systems. Own the resolution of technical issues or defects identified during the validation and testing phases.

Critical Soft Skills

• Accountability: Take full ownership of Safety Quality Delivery and Cost (SQDC) of mechanical products.

• Innovation: Efficiently develop simple yet innovative ideas in a fast-paced environment to maintain a competitive edge.

• Proactiveness & Energy: Demonstrate a contagious positive energy that motivates a team of diverse expertise levels.

• Effective Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical problems in clear factual and simple terms at every level of the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors or Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

• Experience: Minimum 10 years of product design and development experience with at least 5 years specifically within the wind industry.

• Technical Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of mechanical design (static fatigue fracture) FEM (Finite Element Method) and manufacturing processes (Sheet metal machining welding).

• Software Tools: Strong knowledge of CAD (Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD preferred) CAE tools (Ansys Hypermesh) and PLM tools.

• Travel: Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.

• Linguistic: Advanced/fluent English; Spanish is a plus.

Desired Characteristics

• Proven track record of structured problem-solving (RCA) and Lean design principles.

• Strong interpersonal skills with experience working in international multi-disciplinary project teams (Electrical Structural and Systems).

• Expertise in wind turbine structural components and internal mechanical systems.

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